WVCBP in the News

Public News Service -- One effect of the legal fight has been to delay the law's implementation. In some ways, West Virginia is farther along than many, according to Renate Pore, health policy director with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read

The Charleston Gazette -- Another study. In the last three years, we've had four of them . . . including the 2012 report from the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. Read

Martinsburg Journal -- We offered Shell $300 million in tax incentives which would have created what Ted Boettner of the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy called "a virtual tax-free environment." Read

The State Journal -- Ted Boettner, director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, said he did not understand how Muchow calculated a $20 million increase in state tax revenues. Read

The Charleston Gazette -- After studying those proposals, the West Virginia Center for Budget Policy said in a new analysis Thursday that if tax breaks were a major factor, Shell would have chosen an Ohio site. Read

The Charleston Gazette (blog) -- The state's business tax climate had very little to do with Shell's decision to locate in Pennsylvania. Read

The State Journal -- The WVCBP had published materials when the ethane cracker tax incentive was being considered, offering a review of studies suggesting tax breaks had little to do with business location decisions. Read

WOWK-TV -- According to the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy, there are a number of differences in department-level appropriations that vary from Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's budget and the Senate and House versions. Read

The Charleston Gazette -- Non-farm employment rose by 3,100 jobs, reaching 763,990 jobs, according to Jobs Count, a monthly newsletter published by the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. Read

The State Journal -- The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy calculated the value of the tax break to be on the order of $300 million. Read